Manufacture of fabrics faced or coated with finely-comminuted materials.



N0. 689,320. Patented 060. I7, I90]. H. MABKUS. Y

MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FAGED 0R COATED WITH FINELY GOMMINUTED M AT E R I A L S (Application filed Apr. 28, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PA ENT ()FFIIcEj.

HARRIS MARKUS, or MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR To THE BARN WELL MACHINE COMPANY, LIMITED, or PoRTwooD, STOCKPOR'I,

CHESHIRE COUNTY, ENGLAND.

MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FACED OR COATED WITH FlNELY-COMMINU'TED MATERIALS;

SLPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 689.320, dated December 17,1901.

7 Application filed April 23, 1901. Serial No; 57,105. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom, it ma concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRIS MARKUS, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of 213 Bury New Road, Manchester, county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics Faced or Coated with Finely-Com minuted Materials, (for which I have filed application for British Patent No. 20,430, dated November 13, 1900;) and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in manufacturing fabrics faced or coated with finely-comminuted materials, such as ground flocks, hair, or waste textile materials. Hitherto such fabrics have been produced by applying to the cloth a coating of some adhesive and proofing material, such as india-rubber solution,then scattering the flocks or other facing material directly onto the ground fabric, and subsequently subjecting the .whole to pressure. By this procedure it is' diflicult to produce a fabric to which the facing adheres with the desired tenacity or evenness.

The essential feature of the present invention consists in first spreading the facing material on a temporary support and then transferring it to the fabric to which it is intended to finally adhere.

The invention may be carried out in various ways.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings are cross-sections on a greatly-magnified scale illustrating one method of producing, by way of illustration, a flock-faced waterproof fabric by hand.

On a suitable support S a sheet of linen or other cloth CtlS laid. This is coated with a very weak adhesive material, the nature of which may vary according to the kind of facing material used. Its object is merely to obtain a temporary adherence of the facing material to the linen, and must not be so strong as to prevent the facing material leaving the linen when the latter is stripped. When using ground woolen flocks or ground hair, it is found that sufficient adherence is obtained by slightly wetting the linen with water. On this prepared linen the facing material is shaken from a sieve, so as to form an even layer 1) of the desired thickness. The linen a is tilted and slightly shaken, so as to shake 0E surplus facing material. Over the layer of facing material adhering to the linen is applied a coating of india-rubber solution. I

This first coating is preferably very weak and may consist of a solution of one part of india-rubber in twenty parts of naphtha. This thin solution permeates the facing material and binds it together into a sort of cuticle or skin. When sufficient-1y dry, a further layer 0 of india-rubber of the usual strength used in waterproof-cloth making-.- say one part of india-rubber to five parts of naphthais laid on. A sheet 61 of the fabric to be treated (coated in the usual manner with india-rubber composition) is now applied to the cuticle, and the whole is rolled or pressed into intimate contact. The whole is nowinverted, Fig. 2, and the sheetof linen a is then stripped off, leaving the facing material behind onits final support, Fig. 3.

The temporary adhesive material if other than water is used on the temporary support) is then removed by washing or other means. The faced fabric may be vulcanized in a hot room with the aid of steam, orit may be vulcanized by the cold process, according to circumstances.

The process above described is efiective and suitable for working on a small scale by hand. When working on a large scale with long pieces, the usual machinery used for spreading, coating, doubling, drying, vulcanizing, and the like operations on such fabrics,.so as to carry out the process in a continuous manner, may be employed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

l. The process of manufacturing fabric faced with finely-comminuted hair, ground flocks, waste textile material or the like substances, consisting in the following steps: first, applying the comminutedfacing material to a slightly-adhesive temporary support; secondly, applying an adhesive solution to the layer of facing material thus formed; thirdly, applying the fabric to be faced to the adhesive skin of solution and facing material thereby produced and pressing the said fabric and adhesive skin into union, and finally, stripping the fabric thus treated from the said temporary support, substantially as set forth.

2. The process of manufacturing coatedfabric consisting in the following steps: first, spreading a Weak adhesive mixture on a temporary support; secondly, spreading comminuted facing material thereon; thirdly, shaking 01f the excess of such material;

HARRIS MA RKUS.

Witnesses:

E. T. WHITELOW, JOHN HALL. 

